Datadog

Datadog unifies the data from servers, OS, databases, applications, tools and services to present a unified view of the infrastructure. These capabilities are provided on a SaaS-based monitoring and data analytics platform that enables Dev and Ops teams working collaboratively on the infrastructure to avoid downtime, resolve performance problems and ensure that development and deployment cycles finish on time.

Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) is a web server that has traditionally come bundled with Windows (e.g., versions 5.0, 6.0, and beyond). IIS has numerous extensibility features. Swappable interfaces like ISAPI and FastCGI make it possible to use IIS with a variety of backend technologies, from micro-frameworks like Flask to runtimes like Node.js, along with […]

The AWS Serverless Application Repository is a brand-new service that allows companies, individuals, and partners to publish their own serverless applications to a central repository for public use. This new platform makes it easier than ever for developers to quickly deploy serverless applications on AWS. Each application is packaged using the Serverless Application Model (SAM) […]

In order to add greater depth and detail to your full-stack monitoring, Datadog is introducing a new way to explore, inspect, and monitor every process across your distributed infrastructure. That’s every PID, on every host, in one place. We love tools like htop for real-time process monitoring, but SSH-ing into a server to run command […]

As any software engineer knows, logs are a critical resource for troubleshooting complex problems in production. They provide rich, open-ended context about exactly what happened, when, and where, to help you quickly determine the why. But working with logs can be a pain, to say the least, whether you rely on targeted use of grep […]

Having raised $53.4 million in three previous funding rounds while enlisting big-brand reference customers like Airbnb Inc., Netflix Inc., Electronic Arts Inc. and Spotify AB, it would seem that Datadog didn’t really need another big slug of money. But it’s taking the cash just the same. The maker of cloud monitoring software just closed a […]

In episode 227, Douglas Brown interviews Matt Williams, DevOps Evangelist at Datadog. Matt and Douglas discuss Datadog’s SaaS based monitoring service for IT, Operations and Development teams who write and run applications at scale. Matt gives us a detailed explanation on how it works, why we should care, what it takes to get up and […]

The Docker Ecosystem Technology Partner (ETP) program kicks off with the vendor’s tool for monitoring. Six vendors have integrated with Docker for monitoring. The open-source Docker application container virtualization technology is becoming increasingly popular, spawning a need for distributed monitoring capabilities. To help organizations understand what tools are available for container monitoring, Docker last week […]

Today we’re proud to announce that Datadog is officially re-branding as Datadoge. The decision came after much thought on the future of the company brand as well as the suggestions of many twitter followers using the hashtag #Datadoge. As a driving force in the cloud monitoring world, we want our brand to speak for itself and give […]

Communication is the backbone of a great devops team. When business-critical metrics shift in your infrastructure, it’s important to loop in the rest of the team quickly. So today we’re rolling out real-time graph annotations, which let you highlight the noteworthy occurences you find on metric graphs and immediately start a conversation with your team. […]

Click here to read Part 1: Introducing Host Maps. Navigate to the Host Maps by clicking ‘Infrastructure’ → ‘Host Maps’ in the top nav bar. Tags Your hosts probably have a lot of tags. Some tags are applied automatically by Datadog integrations, and some tags were probably applied by members of your team. Regardless of how the […]

If you’ve ever needed to understand what is happening right now on all your hosts, today’s a great day. We’ve just added Host Maps to Datadog, and we think you’re going to like them. Host Maps let you see all of your hosts together on one screen, grouped however you want, filtered however you want, […]

At its heart, the goal of DevOps is better communication between the dev and operations teams at an organization. Some of the tools that help achieve this include version control, chat, and monitoring. By moving the conversations around development and operations out of email and into chat, everyone can see exactly what is going on […]

Konotor has grown tremendously over the last year, so the scale of our operations has grown quickly too. Like many growing companies, we were finding ourselves spending an increasing amount of energy to make our monitoring practices keep pace with our business. These were some of our pressing questions: How can we detect issues before […]